Simple fallacy here, you don't have electronic lenses. You have
mechanically-coupled lenses with electronic meter coupling that you're
adapting to a pure electronic mount.
The stop-down mechanism would be fairly complex, mostly due to size
limitations. You could include it (and someday somebody will), but
it's a much more difficult excercise than the electronically-coupled
adapters for Micro-4/3rds (which cost well over $100 btw). You're
taking the adapter froma simple design which is expensive enough to
manufacture that even the cheap chinese knockoffs cost $50 to a far
more complex design that would retail for a significant fraction of
the camera cost.
-Adam
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's see, your building a lens adapter, you have electronic lenses. For
> $100.00 I'd think you could include a micro motor and a chip to tell it how
> far to move, /if/ it could read the lens and communicate with the camera. I
> guess they couldn't be bothered, electronics are so expensive these days.
>
> On 2/24/2010 11:07 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
>>
>> Electrically compatible is simple. But K mount isn't functionally
>> electrically coupled. It's a mechanical mount with a few electrical
>> fatures added on to make meter coupling easier. You need a mechanical
>> system to get any aperture actuation.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:33 PM, P. J. Alling
>> <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So Samsung couldn't be bothered to make their new lens mount electrically
>>> compatible with their legacy lenses...
>>>
>>> I must admit the fact that a photography magazine could be so clueless
>>> about
>>> photography is a sad commentary.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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